Wow, I got the Savings Master achievement in the Penny-pinching Vanguard category

It's still just so weird seeing this Skinner Box video game shit break containment and permeate everything

Here's some content hyperspecifically targeting all the European (and Aussie & Kiwi) Millennials out there 😎

Seeing that T-Rex model was a downright magical experience as a kid. Also, apparently the Battle Arena Toshinden demo was removed from the German version, along with Loaded. I knew the German government censored the fuck out of shooters, but the poor Krauts couldn't even have fighting games?

Never played a Mafia game before but this grabbed my attention just from the setting and time period. Idk, I just want more historical games without fantasy and scifi

After years of rumours of a Master Chief Collection-style release with all of the Xbox 360 games, this is what we fucking get???

This is going to be the third version of Gears of War 1 on PC* and we still don't have 2 or 3

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*Granted, this will be the first one on Steam and not fucking GFWL or the Store

Link to the comment thread if you want to immerse yourself in some prime American

Yeah, we have let that happen and it is not essential, there are other places and decent prices, everyone is just lazy and wants things cheaper, cheaper goods are just that…suck it up buttercup, losing 93 billion is going to do something and people will adjust, it isn’t a big deal, besides a lot of that stuff is poison ☠️….put your money where it should be, mostly anywhere else…maybe have some ethics, at all….there is not going to be more poverty for us, Etsy sales will go up…any Chinese poverty will only change things for the elite

After being pointed out most of the stuff on Etsy is made from imported materials

You can get the essential things wherever, stop buying junk that you don’t need, end of story…I think that all electronics will eventually come back, granted we should have upped our game on making computer chips, instead of killing the program, especially just cuz someone said they would put a manufacturing company here that we won’t see the profits from…but that isn’t the issue, the issue is that they are slavers and we don’t need their crap…but lots of places make these goods besides China…people are just spoiled and entitled, most everywhere in the world tariffs China, actually all imported goods

Get over it, you’ll go through withdrawals, but when you come out the other side, you will be better for it

All this talk suddenly coming from a people who lost their minds over covid lockdowns. Anyway this dude only buys essential things not made with slave labour, like... Chinese retro handhelds. But that's okay, because he thinks Retroid was founded by a Brit

I do trust them a little but, since the guy that started the company is from the UK I think…it is not hypocritical to buy one thing before tariffs and I will use it for a longtime, like I said and I paid a fair and actually expensive price for it

There's something quite magical about Americans saying this shit about China when they live in the biggest, most disgusting dump the planet has ever fucking seen

To cap things off, here's some random guy from Eastern Europe chiming in with his input

"the subjugation of a whole people that will never have a chance to have a better life, to speak freely, to not just see propaganda, no way to not be owned by the government…"

^ That's how we in the communism-plagued half of Europe lived for 45 years (some even longer), several countries (including China) still live, and how the "Western" leftists would condemn everyone to live had they have a chance to implement their marxist dystopia.

Just room temperature pudding for brains

A while back, my u-lock's plastic mount broke while I was riding my bike, sending the lock straight into the pavement. The impact broke off the hard plastic/rubber bit on the lock itself that slots into the mount so I can't even get a cheap replacement mount from China.

For over a year I've hooked the lock onto one of the shoulder straps on my backpack but I noticed the added weight and stress of a heavy piece of metal dangling off the strap has caused the stitching to start to rip.

I'm getting tired of lugging this thing around. Doea anyone have any ideas for mounting it back on the frame?

From what I've seen this seems to be the main talking point American chuds have landed on to defend the tariffs and to dunk on other Americans who are upset about no longer being able to buy shit on Temu, etc

It's pretty rich to accuse other countries of using slave labour for Burgerlanders in general but doubly rich for Republicans to pretend to give a shit about labour laws, working conditions, etc

It's also interesting how widespread the idea of Chinese slave labour is in the West and to contrast it with how Japan and Korea's awful work cultures get treated

China = the totalitarian communist government forces the entire country into slavery

Japan and Korea = those Asians just love working really hard or something

I could practically feel the warm summer evening air on my skin when I took this shot- the sense of realism you get from the nature in this game is something else. Thank you crunching Rockstar devs who never got to see your children for your sacrifice

Also this shit came out on the PS4, further proof that we didn't need this newest console generation or these past few batches of overpriced GPUs that catch on fire and need additional support inside the case because they draw so much power and have bloated to such monstrous sizes

Gender experts of hexbear, please help me understand wallet gendering

It's just a frigging wallet

There's an entire ecosystem of Facebook-tier repetitive browser games that are designed to keep you tapping for hours as you chase tokens you can exchange for AE coins or coupons. Actually, the main point is to get you to make impulse buys from within the games themselves

The games all use different tokens and naturally run on slowly regenerating energy. If you run out energy, you can get more by exchanging some of your coins or tokens, browsing products on AE, opening another game, or by ordering something for a large energy boost

Simply buying stuff normally on AliExpress doesn't give you game tokens or energy, you need to directly buy an item from a listing the game shows you for it to count

Every single game also has a battlepass type deal with dailies and weeklies to complete for even more tokens

All of this started when Halo 2 introduced XP into online shooters

Bethesda didn't want to make a proper CRPG with actual dialogue trees and speech checks so this is what they came up with instead

Even making random townspeople like you by impressing them with massive farts in Fable makes more sense